Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Chinese government in May 1990 rescinded the martial law order in Lhasa ( imposed in March 1989 following outbreaks of secessionist unrest ) , although a heavy armed presence remained in the city [ see p. 37454 ] .
2 Particular attention is given to the provision of financial services for industrial development and agrarian improvement ; the extent of movement into and out of Edinburgh ; the social structure and occupational zoning within Edinburgh ; demographic change ; the role of the law and of secular and ecclesiastical institutions in helping or hindering change ; the nature of social relationships within the town and the extent to which new and more progressive values existed in the city .
3 Daphne studied the menu a new one , a friendly dinosaur snaked down the side holding the printed menu between its paws .
4 Difficulties of a more acute kind began with the arrival of Charles Lloyd on 22 February .
5 Evidence that drug-related corruption had penetrated Venezuelan institutions came with the arrest in June of Adolfo Ramirez Torres , a former governor of the Federal District of Caracas , who was accused of being part of a cocaine smuggling ring .
6 At the same time , disputes between France and the rest over institutional , political and economic plans grew to the extent where they called into question not just the desirability and possibility of the ultimate goal of political union , but also the current shape and even the viability of the Community .
7 His broad chest heaved from the cold and his exertion .
8 That of the southern European states led to the establishment of commonplace majority voting , as enshrined in the Single European Act .
9 First his Y-reg Yugo crunched into the back of a trailer behind a broken-down Austin Ambassador .
10 She turned on the maxiscreamers , and the riot-control noise boomed through the town , shaking teeth loose , bursting eardrums , bringing rickety buildings down .
11 In the 1890s about 60 per cent of European emigrants went to the United States , but this proportion tended to drop while South America 's share grew steadily .
12 They had grubby overalls on , and caps with protective masks , through which each gang peered at the other .
13 A law amending the Constitution and enabling President Aylwin to pardon some 250 political prisoners incarcerated under the Pinochet dictatorship was approved by the Chamber of Deputies on Jan. 22 .
14 That tovarisch lay in the earth ,
15 My right foot hovered over the accelerator pedal and I balanced Armstrong on the clutch .
16 Stirling accelerated and immediately a loud screaming noise came from the front of the vehicle .
17 The first was in March , when eight bombs fell on the outskirts of the village , killing one person and wounding fourteen others , and damaging the convent in which the Dominican nuns lived .
18 Ever since that story broke in the papers , Creed seemed to be testing loyalties .
19 A narrow rio ran past the bottom of Calle Nerone , and waiting by some steps was a small boat .
20 At that Nessie reappeared with the bucket in her hand .
21 Once back in the ops room , I laid the boy flat on his back , so far down the mattress that his dropped foot hung over the edge at the bottom , just as I had seen the Australian nurse do when I watched her during her London visit the previous year .
22 For many the main non-farm income came from the forest with 94% of the forest properties owned by farmers .
23 Determined to defuse the crisis , the Croatian authorities complied with the Presidency 's directive and began a withdrawal on Oct. 3 .
24 while helpless blood broke through the mattress .
25 No tall figure loomed over the till as she was serving , or appeared suddenly from behind the window displays .
26 Every coherent thought fled abruptly as a tall figure appeared round the side of the building .
27 A wounded horse limped in the wheat , trying to catch up with the other cavalry horses .
28 And then the second says show that that complex numbered to the power of four where that complex number is that complex number , so all you do is that four , that and then you get minus a corner .
29 Her hazel eyes glinted across the table at him .
30 She nodded and her alert hazel eyes flickered around the room , taking everyone in .
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